Location: Classroom
About the course
On this three-day course, you’ll create a delicate flower painting – no larger than A4 – set within an elegant drawn border filled with a gold gilded background. Working from real flowers, you’ll explore how to observe, sketch, and compose a harmonious design featuring one or more blooms of your choice. You’ll begin by studying your chosen flowers through detailed sketches, refining your composition before transferring it to smooth watercolour paper. Step by step, you’ll learn techniques for accurate drawing, controlled watercolour painting, and applying gold to achieve a radiant finish. All materials and full instructions will be provided.
Suitable for all abilities
About the tutor
Penny initially trained as a teacher and then made a career as a scribe and illuminator. Then in 2013 she gained a Diploma in Botanical Art and Illustration. In 2014, she was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt medal for her botanical art. She has works in various collections including RHS Lindley Library, the Hunt Institute, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Bookings for this course will close 26 August
Please take the time to read our course cancellations and refunds policy.
Please note that once this course has been filled, you can email education@botanic.cam.ac.uk to be added to a waiting list.
